. >> in the spring of 2009, the president asked to see me and leon panetta, and rahm emanuel, and ron leiter, head of the national terrorism center and he said, i want to re-energize the hunt for osama bin laden. i want you to make this your top priority. i want to get reports every 30 days. >> august 2010, leon panetta comes back to the president with some information. correct? >> that's correct. in the summer of 2010, the cia led by leon panetta came to us and indicated that they had evidence that was interesting to them at in point, that led them to believe there was a high-value person of interest at jalalabad, pakistan. >> at what point did it become clear that it was osama bin laden? >> you say likelihood, this is why that was a tough decision. even at the point it was a wholly circle case. there was not direct evidence you could present to the president at that point saying we guarantee you, we have direct evidence that osama bin laden is at this compound. >> one of the things you decided to do, and it must have been the president and you were, a very small number of people, to